I feel a little bit behind in the times on this one, but I’ll work to catch up quickly. Over the past year or so I’ve been compiling samples and I put together a book for developing CakePHP websites. I saught publishing on the book, but unfortunately all of the big name publishers felt that CakePHP is too small of a market.
After being rejected, I wasn’t too sure what to do with the book. So, I left it for a while. Then, earlier this week through some Google searching I stumbled upon the idea of an e-book. Previously I’ve associated e-books with “Get rich quick schemes” as you see a lot of websites selling e-books along those lines.
I started investigating this option a bit more and I found some videos about creating e-books with Adobe Indesign and formatting them for the various readers. This quickly started sounding like a lot of work! Instead I searched for other solutions. That’s when I found it: Smashwords. This is an incredible service. You upload your Word Document and they automatically convert it for the over 10 e-book options out there! Not only that, they will sell it and promote it on your behalf. (more…)